Computers

Amazon’s Echo Show was the only smart display on the market in 2017, but fast forward a couple years later and devices like these have become ubiquitous. Much of that is due to competition from the likes of Google, which in addition to making its own hardware, has licensed out its tech to third-party manufacturers like Lenovo. Plus, two years on it’s become clear that smart displays are…

The way we play games is about to change. Or, at least, that’s the claim from companies with cloud-gaming services. Using Project xCloud or Nvidia GeForce Now, you can stream console-quality releases to any screen, including your phone. But how is anyone supposed to hold both a controller and a phone at the same time? It’s not really gaming anywhere if the form factor discourages me from…

Talk to any true Apple fan, and they’ll tell you the last great MacBook Pro was the mid-2015 15-inch model. It had a wide array of ports, a great keyboard and an SD card slot. There was no butterfly keyboard or TouchBar to deal with. As the former Tumblr developer Marco Arment put it: “It’s designed for us, rather than asking us to adapt ourselves to it.” The 16-inch MacBook Pro is the…

HP has been receiving buyout offers as of late, but it’s not ready to lose its independence — at least, not yet. The tech pioneer has rejected a Xerox proposal to buy the company for $22 per share, arguing that the current offer “undervalues” HP and isn’t in shareholders’ “best interests.” It also cast doubt on Xerox’s ability to pull off the deal in the first place, noting…